When you have the freedom to walk and change position in labor, it allows your birth to unfold at “your own rhythm” and lets you to respond to pain in…
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The third stage of labor is a unique time when the mother and her baby create a powerful imprint of each other. This is a very emotional and hormonal process…
Beyond providing midwifery care to women, midwives understand the importance of developing long term relationships with their clients. Midwives spend time getting to know their clients and build a relationship…
My name is Isabelle Guillou and I am a Certified Nurse Midwife. As a midwife, I’m very blessed to support families during their pregnancy and the birth of their newborn…
Much of our mindset about labor is socially constructed – when it comes to birth, we hear about how painful labor is. This does create fear and anxiety and a…
One of the most common questions brought up during an interview with a homebirth midwife is what happens at home if we have a complication or an emergency? One of…
The first hour after the birth is such a momentous time for the mother and her baby that it is often called the Sacred Hour or Golden Hour. Uninterrupted skin-to-skin…
The Birth in the Age of Artificial Light – Michel Odent Over the millenniums, the area of the human brain where the thinking takes place, called neocortex, has become larger….
Prodromal labor is the medical term for ‘false labor’ but that doesn’t mean it’s not real labor! Ask any woman who has experienced this and she will surely tell you…
It’s been almost two years since I took a leap of faith and opened my homebirth practice and today, I’m reflecting on how much homebirth has changed the way I…